About TRCS

Boys Varsity Basketball Showcase Game There is a HS Boys Varsity PSAL showcase Basketball game against Leon Goldstein HS at 12:15 on Sunday, 1/22/2012, at Mott Haven Village Preparatory High School, located at 730 Concourse Village, West Bronx. Families and classmates are welcome to attend!

Renaissance participates in Anti-Bullying Project.

Renaissance hosted Miss New York (Queens resident Kaitlin Monte) and representatives from the Charter Center, the Charter Parent Action Network (CPAN), bullying expert Perry Aftab, and State Senator Jeff Klein, who is leading a legislative push to crack down on cyberbullying.

Senator Klein is introducing legislation that will make cyberbullying a punishable crime. Before the bill is finalized, Senator Klein’s team is collecting data from NYC students - in both charter and district schools - to inform their efforts.

Senator Klein has worked together with the nation’s foremost cyberbullying expert Parry Aftab to design a brief 12-question online survey, “Click, Comment and Create Change.” Ask your child if s/he has taken this short, anonymous survey at school. If they missed the chance, you can access the survey at Survey.

Check out the press coverage: Queens Chronicle

About Renaissance

The Renaissance Charter School (“TRCS”) is a K-12 public charter school located in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. Our mission is to foster educated, responsible young leaders who through their own personal growth will spark a renaissance in New York.

Download our charter: 2010 Renewal Retrospective and 2010 Renewal Prospective

Download the report from the New York Board of Regents that recommends Renaissance for it's second full renewal, dated June, 2010: 2010 Recommendation for Renewal

Download our High School Profile: 2010-2011 Profile

Renaissance Events in the Recent Past:

Check out the Animation Project that Children's Museum of the Arts did with the 5th & 6th grade After-school children this past year! CMA Animations Learn more about our after-school program on the Parents page and click on K-4 or 5-12 After School Program links.

NY Senator Gillibrand at Colgate University Science & Sports Camp: The Senator toured the camp, interviewing campers and Janna Ostroff. Check out the interviews below.

WKTV, the NBC affiliate in Utica, sent a reporter and cameraman who followed the tour, filmed the session with the campers and had a short interview with the senator. WKTV

WBGH/WIVT in Binghamton, sent a reporter and cameraman who arrived early, and did interviews with Janna Pistiner Ostroff and Courtney Savage and filmed the campers arriving. They also had a short interview with Senator Gillibrand. WBGH/WIVT

Colgate.edu posted a story as well: Colgate edu

2011 GRADUATES Congratulations to the Class of 2011! 100% of our graduates were accepted to institutions which include: Adelphi University, Andrews University, Barnard, SUNY Binghamton, Borough of Manhattan CC, SUNY Brockport, City College of NY and CCNY Honors College, Delaware State University, Embassy University, SUNY Delphi, Hampshire College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Kingsborough CC, Mercy College, New York University, New York City College of Technology, Parsons School of the Arts, Queens, Queensborough CC, St. Johns University, SUNY Stony Brook, and Wells College.

Student Wrap-up with Math Raps! Ram Buenaventura, 7th & 8th Grade Math teacher at Renaissance, submitted his 2008-2009 students' Math Raps to PBS INNOVATION AWARDS 2011, and they won 2nd prize. The video entries for each of the winners will be available for viewing on the PBS Teachers website beginning later in June, at PBS Teacher Innovators. Congratulations to Ram and his students!

Check out NY 1 Every Day to follow the Freedom Riders! NY1-Freedom Ride; NY1-Day1; NY1-Day 2; NY1-Day 3; NY1-Day 4; NY1-Day 5;

National and International Press Links: BBC; WLBT News NBC Mississippi Affiliate; El Diario: DNAinfo; Black Entertainment Television News;

Renaissance students and staff joined high school students from four other schools around New York to mark the 50th anniversary of an important Civil Rights moment with a bus trip to Jackson, Mississippi.

The trip commemorates when blacks and whites came together for the so-called "Freedom Rides" on buses in the deep south. They challenged segregation at a time when buses and bus stations were separated by color.

About 50 students and faculty from Renaissance, our sister school Innovation HS, and others left early Friday, May 20 for the long bus ride to Jackson, Mississippi, stopping first at Washington D.C. to tour the Lincoln Memorial and then on to Greensboro, North Carolina to visit the Woolworth building where four students staged a sit-in in February 1960 to desegregate lunch counters. Saturday's journey included a stop in Atlanta and then on to another historic site from the civil rights movement -- Birmingham, Alabama.

TRCS 11th grader C.J. Joseph is the voice of NYC's Green Schools NYC event -- hosted by the Green Schools Alliance and the Department of Education.

Read more and see the music video: z100.com